Today's Middle distance was hold in the fastest terrain of POM 2010. With very good runability and visibility (except of a few control sites), you were not "allowed" to make mistakes. I tried to take out the maximum of the power in my legs, which was not that much anymore after some demanding days....

After some months without any serious competition, I started my international season 2010 with the POM in Figueira da Foz. Since my last article, I took part in a New Year Eve's run and some nice regional competitions in Austria, most of them with snow. The snow, and low temperatures are the reason...

At the beginning of every training season, our team, military orienteering team, conducts a treadmill test, starting at 10 km/h, increasing by 2 km/h every 3:10 minutes, at an elevation of 5%. Thanks to Robert Enne and his team in the military hospital Wien-Stammersdorf for supporting us every...

I draw my route on the austrian night championship map before I had a look on the GPS file. In the attached map you can find both on one map, my drawn route, which I thought I was running and the GPS route. In general, there are no big differences. Of course it depends also on the map, but I tried...

As the Austrian Night Championship was postponed to the beginning of  november in the region with Austria's highest mountains, we wouldn't have been surprised, if we had to run in snow. Fortunately, we had perfect weather conditions and it was warmer than in previous years. The organisers did...

Last Sunday, I had my last competition in 2009. I took part in Graz Halfmarathon, a nice event with a lot of spectators and a motivating atmosphere along the whole course. I had a good feeling during the first kilometers in my legs and hoped to be much faster than the time I was aiming for (73min)....

Unfortunately, I had to skip the World Cup Final in Switzerland. Finally, I finished WC 2009 on place 50, that's clearly far away from my pre-season's goal of Top 20. Of course, I miss the points from the WC final, but my performances in Scandinavia have been to weak for more points. In this...

Last weekend was quite competition and travel intensive. Saturday: Relay at CISM in Estonia; 3,5 hours bus ride, flight to Vienna via Frankfurt, 1a.m. Sunday: jump into bed Sunday morning: jump out of bed, Austria Championship Relay in Witzelsberg At CISM Relay I was first runner in my team with...

The second individual competition at this year's CISM is passé. This year, we first had long distance, last Wednesday. On Tuesday, I felt as I could not even think of a fast step, because I still was tired from the weekend's competition, but on Wednesday, everything felt different. I had a good...

Although I'm already in Estonia at CISM, I want to give a review of last weekend's competition in St. Lorenzen, with Long distance and team Austrian Championship.   I can look back to a successful weekend. On Saturday, I managed to defended my Austrian Champion title at long distance and...